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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: What's the BEST CLI for the ST
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Date: 12 Mar 91 22:34:54 GMT
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In <1991Mar12.144653.11654@doe.utoronto.ca> david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:


>Bash and ksh are Unix shells, so they have a user and support base many
>times larger than the ST could ever afford, and both of them run well
>under MiNT. Shells like gulam are not too nice, because they have all
>of the commands built-in. That's acceptable if you're running only one
>invocation of a shell, but if you have three shells open in three MGR
>windows, and a fourth running a script in the background, it's a ridiculous
>waste of valuable memory.

	Sounds like a TSR is necessary - so instruction space can be shared.
Has anyobdy done any work on this idea?

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